Names

If you read this blog at my site instead of in a feed reader or via email, you may have noticed, by glancing at the work-in-progress box immediately above the daily content, that I’ve gone on a naming frenzy. Yes, both shawls in progress now have names.

The blue shawl I am close to completing shall henceforth be known as The Exonumist’s Shawl.

You may wonder how I came up with such a name.

Someone used the word “medallion” to describe this shawl in yesterday’s comments. “Cool,” thought I. “I can call it The Medallion Shawl. Well, of course there are eleventy-billion knitting patterns with “Medallion” in their name, some of them shawls.

I starting thinking about medallions and my thoughts turned to tokens, medals, coins, etc. The work exonumia is used to describe coin-like objects, and an exonumist is a collector of exonumia.

While all this may seem a bit pedantic (I’m afraid I am a bit of a pedant), the word struck my fancy, so the name will stick.

Here is the current state of The Exonumist’s Shawl:

As you can see, the end of the edging is almost in sight. I made much better progress than I expected last night.

On to the spiral shawl. This one I am calling The Order to Chaos Shawl. The reasoning behind this name is not quite so convoluted. Here’s the progress so far:

And here’s a close-up:

The body of the shawl is worked in tidy diagonal lines out from the center to a certain point. At that point, the neat lines (the order) taper off and a field of flowers (the chaos) is introduced. Hence the name.

More pattern hi-jinks will ensue. Stay tuned

Lucy Sez:

“I’m glad my momma named me Lucy. Clearly, it could have been a lot worse.”

Both shawls are gorgeous, but I especially love the Order to Chaos! I love the color, I love the swirls and cannot wait to see the next pattern unfold.
I hope both of these patterns will be available! (Right – like I need an excuse to buy more yarn…)

Oh, it doesn’t matter what you call them….they’re all lovely. And I will have to knit my own copies of all of them! Maybe your next after the next book can be “Wendy’s Circular Shawls With Unusual Names”. I’d buy it!

I admit I ran to look up the meaning of Exonumist before I even read on down. Thought I was just too dumb to know the meaning, felt a little better when I read you had defined it. I do love it and I am really looking forward to getting my hands on the pattern. xoxo
.-= Stacy´s last blog ..Under Siege well in my own mind anyway =-.

They are both gorgeous. I hope the pattern for the Exonumist Shawl will be available to purchase when you have time to chart and write it. Keeping knitting, please…you inspire me! Hugs to Lucy.
.-= Kim B.´s last blog ..New Knitting Projects =-.

All well and good, Ms. Wendy, but be sure to make it a checkmark for ordering. If we are required to spell correctly, you can just forget me ordering the pattern;–P
.-= CindyCindy´s last blog ..I don’t want to jinx it. =-.

DH and I never did spell in front of the children, but we did use pachyderm instead of elephant, for instance. When their vocabulary included pachyderm, we went on to foreign languages. That’ll teach them!
.-= Barbara-Kay´s last blog ..A Quiet Weekend =-.

Oh these look lovely! I especially like the spiral design, and both names are excellent. I’m glad you’re thinking throws/afghans instead of gossamer shawls, because that’s what I’d want to make as well. Good to know that these designs will work up well in thicker yarn whenever the patterns become available.

Oh great, one Girasole almost finished and now I’m hooked on knitting big circles!

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